World Series share per Giant: $377,003

Champions' Winter

Chronicle Staff Report

Updated 10:51 pm, Monday, November 26, 2012

The Giants set a record in 2012 that will bring smiles to a lot of faces in the organization and to one disgraced former Giant.

The commissioner's office announced Monday that each Giant who was voted a full share of postseason gate receipts will receive $377,003, the highest total ever, breaking the previous mark of $323,170 that the 2006 Cardinals received and blowing past the $317,631 that each of the Giants received for winning the 2010 World Series.

And, yes, Melky Cabrera will get $377,003 to help defray the roughly $1.85 million in salary he lost when he was suspended for using performance-enhancing drugs. Baseball rules required a full share for Cabrera.

As in 2010, Giants players who voted were generous in dividing the $23.5 million they received this year. They awarded 50 full shares, partial shares equivalent to 11.1 full shares and 12 cash awards.

The total players' pool of $63.4 million also set a record, raised partly by the addition of two wild-card play-in games. The players get half the gate receipts from each wild-card game, plus 60 percent of the gate from the first three Division Series games and the first four League Championship Series and World Series games.

All 10 playoff teams get some money. Their shares ranged from $16,999 for each of the Texas Rangers, who lost their wild-card game to Baltimore, to $284,274 for each member of the Series-losing Detroit Tigers to the Giants' $377,003.

Melky Boo Pack: In the spirit of post-Thanksgiving holiday shopping, the Giants have placed a limited number of single-game tickets on sale online for games in April, May and June. They also are selling "Holiday Packs" of six specific games.

The "Black Pack" includes Wednesday, June 5, one of two interleague games the Blue Jays will play in San Francisco this season. In other words, the Giants are letting fans get into the holiday spirit by offering them a chance to let Cabrera know how they feel about his drug suspension from last year

The Black Pack also includes games against the Diamondbacks, Nationals, Marlins, Reds and Red Sox, at varying prices for non-primo seats. As of Monday afternoon, one six-pack in the View Reserved section, 12th row, behind third base, cost $144.50.

A Gnome Pack was going for $178.50, higher because it includes a May 5 Sunday game against the Dodgers that includes a Sergio Romo gnome giveaway.

Giants official Russ Stanley said the team has sold 50,000 tickets since putting them on sale Friday.

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